Word: domes
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Collapsing Dome. Southern California's ill winds have their genesis over the Great Basin, a vast plateau that includes the Mojave Desert and is bounded by the Rocky Mountains on the east and the Sierra Nevada to the west. For reasons still not fully understood by meteorologists, dry winds from the north and northwest are occasionally trapped over the basin and form into a stationary dome of high-pressure air. Two or three days later, when the enormous dome collapses, its great mass of air begins moving toward nearby low-pressure areas. Blocked by the towering walls...
...work. At 64, he is the undisputed lord of the manor, and he looks it. Though in physique (6 ft., 139 Ibs.) he resembles a patrician heron stuffed into herringbone, there is an impeccably correct bearing about him that says "Beware: regal and remote." His face and grey-fringed dome, all right-angle turns, are a study in parchment over steel. A Vienna-born English subject, he could easily pass as the British ambassador to Paris-a job that he wouldn't mind having if the Met could ever find 15 men to replace...
What Stone produced might well make an old Mogul emperor rub his eyes in astonishment. Against the background of the blue Murree hills, Stone set the swimming-pool reactor beneath a mosquelike dome embellished with gold mosaic designs, juxtaposed it with a minaret-like exhaust tower. Enclosing the reactor complex is a great quadrangle housing laboratories and offices. In its final phase, the great quadrangle surrounding the reactor will measure 800 ft. by 600 ft., become the nucleus for what Stone likes to think of as "the M.I.T. of Pakistan...
With André Malraux, France's Minister of Culture, adoration of art knows no bounds. He has put Marc Chagall's lovers on the ceiling of the Paris Opéra, Maillol bronzes in the Tuileries gardens, Masson's abstracts in the dome of the Comédie Française. He has washed the face of Paris from a dingy grey to honey-colored sandstone, and his art history, Voices of Silence, was a monument to a world he saw as "a museum without walls...
Well, not entirely, Leo. The dome may be an elaborate Bronx cheer for visitors, and it is true the Astros do considerably better at home (25 wins in 40 games v. 14 of 35 on the road this year). It is truer still that while the Mets set out to draw crowds with familiar-and fading-names, the Astros are starting to cash in on the richest crop of youthful talent in the majors...